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20The postmodern ethical condition a conversation with Agnes HellerCritical Horizons 1 (1): 135-145. 2000.
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20Claude Lefort, Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of DemocracyCritical Horizons 8 (2): 256-263. 2007.
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17Kant on the Imagination: Fanciful and Unruly, or “an Indispensable Dimension of the Human Soul”Critical Horizons 21 (2): 106-129. 2020.ABSTRACTKant is concerned to give meaning, depth and veracity to the notion of the subject, which he does on transcendental grounds, and also to shift it beyond purely cognitivist formulations. He opens the subject up to other dimensions of the world that he or she establishes – not only the cognitive, but also the political – ethical and the aesthetic. He does this by constructing and denoting different faculties and their principles that ought to be employed in the distinct domains – the under…Read more
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15Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory (edited book)Brill. 2007.Recognition, Work, Politics includes a range of essays in contemporary French critical theory around politics, recognition, and work, and their philosophical articulations. These issues are addressed from directions that include post-structuralism, the paradigm of the gift, recognition theory, and post-marxism
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14Underdevelopment and Critical Theorizing: Empowerment and Cosmopolitan DemocracyCritical Horizons 21 (4): 367-377. 2020.It has sometimes been said that Critical Theory is Atlantic-centric – pre-occupied with European and American problems – from war and concentration camps in Europe, the post-national status of the...
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14Critical Theory After Habermas: Encounters and Departures (edited book)Brill. 2004.The essays in this book engage with the broad range of Jürgen Habermas' work including politics and the public sphere, nature, aesthetics, the linguistic turn and the paradigm of intersubjectivity
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12David Roberts: Images of aesthetic modernityThesis Eleven 152 (1): 76-86. 1987.David Roberts has always had a keen, sharp and even mischievous eye for paradox, for pointing to what used to be termed in Hegelianese, ‘contradictions’ or ‘dialectics’ of modern society and its forms. Roberts’ keen eye has focused on the paradoxes (rather than negative dialectics) of aesthetic modernity and the forms that these paradoxes have taken within the historical time consciousness and self-understanding of modernity. This paper will suggest – although only sketchily and in outline – tha…Read more
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10Aesthetics and Modernity: Essays by Agnes Heller (edited book)Lexington Books. 2010.Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays on aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception and embodiment in the context of the continuing pitfalls of modernity. The essays also throw light on Heller's theories of values, emotions and feelings, embodiment, and modernity. Those with an interest in philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, and social theory will find this collection illuminating, and an essential addition to an…Read more
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7Critical Theories and the Budapest School: Politics, Culture, and Modernity (edited book)Routledge. 2017.Critical Theories and the Budapest Schoolbrings together new perspectives on the Budapest School in the context of contemporary developments in critical theory. Engaging with the work of the prominent group of figures associated with Georg Lukács, this book sheds new light on the unique and nuanced critiques of modernity offered by this school, informed as its members' insights have been by first-hand experiences of Nazism, Soviet-type societies, and the liberal-democratic West. With studies of …Read more
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6Sacred Narratives. Terra Nullius and an Australian BestiariumIn Said Amir Arjomand & Edward A. Tiryakian (eds.), Rethinking Civilizational Analysis, Sage Publications. pp. 52--201. 2004.
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5Contemporary perspectives in critical and social philosophy (edited book)Brill. 2004.Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy brings together a range of essays concerning ways of conceptualising modernities, subjectivities, and recognition. It highlights recent developments in German critical and social philosophy and includes essays by Martin Seel, Christoph Menke, Max Pensky, Andrew Bowie, and Karl Ameriks, and critical discussions of the works of Manfred Frank, Theodor Adorno and Axel Honneth
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5Slave to the rhythm or love, sex and the dialectic of freedomKaufmannJean-Claude Love Online, trans. MaceyDavid. Cambridge: Polity Press; KaufmannJean-Claude The Curious History of Love, trans. MaceyDavid. Cambridge: Polity Press; LuhmannNiklas Love: A Sketch, ed. KierselingAndré, trans. CrossKathleen. Cambridge: Polity Press (review)Thesis Eleven 117 (1): 127-134. 2013.Current changes in the intimate sphere are denoted by an expansion of emotional vocabularies, of freedom in sex and sexual preference, and the extension of sexual life with neither inhibition, nor obligation, nor marriage for both women and men. This reading of the works of Jean-Claude Kaufmann and Niklas Luhmann suggests that the result of this current revolution of the intimate sphere is mixed. A new differentiated form of the intimate sphere has developed with an internal distinction between …Read more
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4Kant: Anthropology, Imagination, FreedomRoutledge. 2020.In a new reading of Immanuel Kant’s work, this book interrogates his notions of the imagination and anthropology, identifying these – rather than the problem of reason – as the two central pivoting orientations of his work. Such an approach allows a more complex understanding of his criticalphilosophical program to emerge, which includes his accounts of reason, politics and freedom as well as subjectivity and intersubjectivity, or sociabilities. Examining Kant’s theorisation of the complexity of…Read more
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4Origins of Modernity: The Origins of Modern Social Theory from Kant to Hegel to MarxWiley-Blackwell. 1987.
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2Imaginaries of Modernity: Politics, Cultures, TensionsRoutledge. 2016.Imaginaries of Modernity has five broad themes - the understanding of modernity, the complexity of the modern condition, politics, the variety and density of modern life, the centrality of the concept of culture to social and critical theory. It draws on the works of Cornelius Castoriadis and Agnes Heller whilst in critical dialogue with Weber, Durkheim, Simmel, Adorno, Taylor and Habermas.
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2Modernity, Civilisation, Culture and ‘The War to End All Wars’: Or We Begin and End in the MessIn Matthew Sharpe, Rory Jeffs & Jack Reynolds (eds.), 100 years of European philosophy since the Great War: crisis and reconfigurations, Springer. 2017.We are always in the circle of the present and everything depends on where we are in it, and if we wish to move around, or even impossibly, exit from it. In terms of our topic, we are in a history of bad mistakes and misjudgements. But we can make the past speak, ask questions of it that are self-consciously raised by the present. In this sense the past is turned into an interlocutor rather than either an object that can be dissected or re-assembled in the scientific manner of a forensic anthrop…Read more
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2‘Look both ways’ – you might be hit by the traffic: On Peter Beilharz’s Antipodean social theorisingThesis Eleven 179 (1): 109-124. 2023.
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2Violence, Cruelty, Power: Reflections on HetronomyCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 8 (2): 3-20. 2012.There is an opening in Castoriadis’ work for a notion of cruelty, and it emerges in the way in which he develops his idea of heteronomy, as a human world that is blinded or deflected away from human self-creation. This essay is an attempt to locate cruelty constitutively or ontologically in a post-metaphysical register, as an act of creativity that can be given form as a very particular act of singularity, that is, without regard for the other. Acts of human cruelty are acts of imaginary, creati…Read more
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